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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Two months have passed since my last blog post. Oops! So sorry for ignoring you.
We have been very busy with the move, and getting sorted in the new home.
It took me about 6 weeks to get back to my quilting.

We were very lucky because Autumn and even Winter has been very mild so far. I'm still doing the gardening, just before Christmas. After the long wait since we said 'yes' to this new home, we moved in five months later just when Autumn was starting, and we have been able to enjoy lovely weather.

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

It has been almost three weeks since we signed the deeds for the new old house and the deeds for the sale of our other house will be signed next week. It will be so much easier once we only have one house left.

We are loving it here, but it is also a lot of hard work. I haven't stitched for weeks and weeks. And I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

The weather was very good to us for the first two weeks and we enjoyed being outside and working in the garden, having coffees and lunches on the terrace by the back door, which is also the front door.

The wildlife is lovely here. The first two weeks of October we still had lots of butterflies and dragonflies:

Painted Lady

Tiny frog I met whilst collecting walnuts

It is getting quite Autumnal now:

And we are spending hours each day collecting the walnuts. There are five big walnut trees in our orchard, and two smaller ones in other places in our garden:

So lots to do, especially this busy month. But we are loving it.

I'm hoping to get back to stitching next month, when things have settled down and work outside is done.

Monday, 31 August 2015

Again I have to apologize. It has been ages since I wrote anything here.Ik moet me alweer verontschuldigen. Het is erg lang geleden sinds ik een blogje heb geschreven.

We are in the process of moving house. In the mean time we have sold our current home, within two weeks, and we still cannot quite believe it.We zijn aan het verhuizen, althans bijna. En in de tussentijd hebben we ons huidige huis verkocht, binnen twee weken. We kunnen het nog niet echt geloven.

We only had to do six viewings, thankfully as I really hated them. I had to lock the cats in the cat enclosure outside (which they hated) and leave our home after a lot of hard work, to let the estate agent show our home to interested parties.We hoefden maar zes bezichtigingen te doen, gelukkig, want ik vond het vreselijk. Ik moest de katten opsluiten in de buitenren (wat zij niet leuk vinden) en na hard werken ons huis overlaten aan de makelaar, die het liet zien aan geïnteresseerden.

We will sign the deeds for our new home on October 1st, and move there (with the minimum of stuff, and the cats) on the 2nd. Anything that will fit in two cars and a trailer :) Must not forget to take a picture of that!Op 1 oktober tekenen we de overdrachtsakte voor ons nieuwe huis en op 2 oktober gaan we met een soort campinguitrusting en de katten naar het nieuwe huis. Alles wat in twee auto's en een aanhanger past. Ik moet niet vergeten daar een foto van te maken!

Our home is at 90 minutes from here, and driving there and back every day to start DIY and renovations is a waste of time. And we just want to finally BE there. We have been waiting for five months since we first saw it and said 'yes'.Ons nieuwe huis is anderhalf uur rijden van hier, in de Betuwe, en elke dag op en neer rijden om te gaan klussen en renoveren is zonder van de tijd. En we willen er gewoon EINDELIJK zijn! We wachten al vijf maanden sinds we het voor het eerst zagen, en 'ja' zeiden.

That gives us a month to get the main rooms ready for the real move, and for handing over the house to the new owners. More deeds to sign.We hebben dan een maand om de belangrijkste ruimten klaar te krijgen voor de echte verhuizing, en om ons huis over te dragen aan de nieuwe eigenaren. Meer aktes om te tekenen.

In between all that, I have been doing a bit of stitching. A block and hexagon flower for Stonefields: Tussendoor heb ik ook nog wat gehandwerkt. Een blok en hexagonbloem voor Stonefields:

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

When I discovered this sampler by France A. of Passion Patchwork I loved it, but managed to hold off.
Last week I was reminded by someone on Facebook and just had to start.
Like a good girl, I started with block 1 and then they became rather random, depending on which fabrics I could combine for each block. Three blocks are finished and I'm working on the next one, in between sorting and packing.

The original blocks by France A are in browns, blues and pinks/reds, and I decided to stick with that colour palette as that was what I fell in love with. De oorspronkelijke blokken van France A zijn bruin met blauw en roze/rood. Ik besloot die kleuren aan te houden omdat dat was waar ik verliefd op was geworden.